The country is in a blind madness. The people at the very top, who have pretty much all the money, could easily help heal things by taking the marginal profit cuts that would come from bringing outsourced jobs back to America - they wouldn’t even need to raise prices at all, just stop passing the rolled up bundles of money between each other like a basketball, and start spreading it around to their loyal employees. Somehow this idea gets portrayed as anti-American, but I don’t know how. I think being rewarded for being a hard, loyal worker is the ultimate expression of the American ideal and this Regan-esque idea of the guys at the top profiting off the work of their employees, giving them but the bare minimum in return is the opposite of that ideal.
The trickle-down economy is the biggest scam in American history. It’s completely nuts that people even bought into it. Considering that wealthy people tend to SAVE far more money, percentage wise, than they spend compared to the middle and lower class (who need to spend that larger percentage of money on food and shelter), it makes no sense just from a numerical standpoint. But even further, it’s not like these wealthy people are waltzing into a mom and pop shop to buy their stuff - they buy their consumer goods from huge chains just like everyone else, putting their money into the pockets of other wealthy people, with only 7-10 dollars an hour “trickling down” to the average worker. Then, all these people with their infinite wealth get policy power by either befriending politicians (lobbying) or becoming politicians (Bloomberg, Bush, et al billionaire politicians). Also, the wonders of globalization have made loyalty of American company’s to American interests pretty much non-existent, so no company or executive will stick their necks out to help everyone if it even marginally affects their own bottom line, and instead uses tax-deductible charity donations to make it seem like they’re helping the people, when they’re just cutting back their government expenses. Oh, and let’s not forget the wonders of high-priced accounting practices, which cut down the taxes paid by the wealthy and huge corporations back to a tiny percent, whereas the average joe has no access to this and has to pay a monstrous chunk of his income each year.
Shit, that’s pretty much a manifesto I just wrote - long and unfocused. I’ll probably have the FBI at my house in ten minutes.
“Most everyday objects in Blondie, like Herb’s weirdly top-heavy little car, are in a sort of boring version of the uncanny valley: while not cartoonish enough to be funny or interesting, they’re also not particularly realistic-looking if you really examine them for any length of time. I have to say, though, that in panel two pretty much nails that lonely exurban freeway off-ramp and overpass. The dark sky makes for quite an evocative scene, as these four white-collar drones head back to their identical houses, bickering in a desultory fashion about their hated jobs, in that incongruously cheery pastel car.”
the secret is to fill them with cheddar and green onions and saute them in garlic butter on medium low heat.
I hate mushrooms and I’ve never tried this and never will cause its fucking sick, but everybody I know who eats mushrooms goes nuts over it so i guess its good.
Hahahaha, now this, I’ll reblog. BECAUSE MY ROOMIE FOLLOWS ME ON TUMBLR. AND SHE WILL FUCKING MAKE THIS OR GET PUNCH-FUCKED TO DEATH.
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